Polymeri Online 18.10.15 | Illustrating with polymer, 3D vase veneering, Rounded millefiori candy beads and Rusty horrors!

Great Halloween goodies!

Helena Bogosian is an award winning artist known for her 3-D clay illustrations. She is the creator of the popular Clay Quests series of puzzle books and her clay illustrations have been featured in books, magazines, posters, and websites. She is using polymer clay for her illustrations, which she sculpts and then digitally photographs. All preliminary sketches are done in clay as well.

Don't miss her clay animations videos.

www.helenabogosian.com

www.instagram.com/hbogosianart

Olga Perova is a polymer clay sculptor creating both jewellery in different techniques as well as figures with a character. Some of her large sized vases has a ceramic base which is covered with polymer clay. According to her Facebook page she is currently living in London.

www.instagram.com/olgaperova9977

https://www.facebook.com/olga.perova

Ju Lau Shtuki is an instagram find which I had difficulty finding more about. She is a polymer clay artist enjoying her time creating beautiful round beads made of tiny millefiori canes in lovely shades and colours. It seems like she is a seller of clay supplies in Russia but I couldn't understand much from the translation and photos in her gallery. Beautiful beads!

www.instagram.com/ju.lau.shtuki

Imge Celepci calls her art “Rusty Blonde Art”. What does this means? Does it have any connection to the fact that she is a beautiful blond lady who specializes on scary figurines sculpturing?

She is a painter, sculptor, singer, vegetarian, horror fan from Istanbul and her instagram gallery is full of known and un-known faces all bloddy and scared J perfect to Halloween!

Say hi to Johnny Depp and Chucky for me!

www.facebook.com/rustyblondeart

www.etsy.com/shop/rustyblonde

www.instagram.com/imgecelepci

Polymeri Online 19.8.12 | Polymer windup toys, Marine & Zippered jeans bracelets, 3D avocado cane and Cute cake toppers

Polymer clay toys

Sswoss is a Singapore artist who specialize in design, illustration and both integrated into clay illustration designs.
If I am correct, she takes windup toys, add polymer clay figures, details and decorations, and you have a whole new different super special toy.
She is also using paper and scissors to create her unique designs, in this photo with a cute rocking giraffe toy.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sswoss/
Click on the right column to see more of her work, and her blog here

Marine polymer clay wavy bracelet

Dina Kovalkina's Marine bracelet reminded me that I haven't been in the beach this summer. This is especially ridiculous because I live 10 minutes of the nearest beach...
The jellyfish and the extreme heat kept me in the air condition but thanks to my daily walks to the post office I got a nice tan on my arms (with sunscreen!) :)
Her bracelet is all wavy on the sides, this feature will work great with the super soft clay these days.
She is from Russia and uses polymer clay with semi-precious stones, glasses and Czech crystal stones .
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dinslava/4964577792/
Here is another coily earring set to think about.

Polymer clay zippered bracelet

Zippered jeans bracelet? Spanish Miryam Garcia made this one for a swap in the spanish association, The swap was to make a trade for a bracelet or bangle with another member.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dinkyta/7543760108/
Don't miss her brush beads - metal base beads with millefiori canes as brush hair!

Avocado millefiori cane

I found Elizabeth West avocado cane in her flickr gallery a long time ago, I really liked the center part of it - made of shaded brown which seems almost 3D.
I wish she had more of her polymer work in her flickr/etsy.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/caneme/4417793240/

Polymer clay cake toppers

I couldn't resist Maria's cake toppers, They are so cute! Maria finished tourist & business administration Studies in Greece, She opened up her Etsy shop after being motivated to do so by friends and family. It was so hard to choose which one to show in the enclosed photo, finally I chose a bride penguin and a groom piggy :)
http://www.etsy.com/shop/HeartshapedCreations

Polymeri Online 19.4.10

Rings using wire and polymer clay by Elvira López del Prado from Spain, her pieces are based on the creation of unique handmade beads using a variety of materials including polymer clay, wire, felt, resin, paper, textiles.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elviralopezdelprado/page2/

Barbara reid is an illustrator, i found some great tutorials in her site to make plasticine creatures - worth checking!
animals -
http://barbarareid.ca/plasticine/PlasticineProject01.pdf
cat -
http://www.barbarareid.ca/plasticine/PlasticineProject02.pdf
setting a scene -
http://barbarareid.ca/plasticine/PlasticineProject03.pdf
http://barbarareid.ca/makingpictures.html

This is a cute tutorial for making a polymer clay cat on Wikihow site
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Polymer-Clay-Cats

Dave fimo figures from Canada was featured in my blog but in this link you can see the process of his work -
http://www.davesfimofigures.com/How%20To/Rachel.html

Polymeri Online 25.7.09 - Emi Sfard

My 3rd & last artist in this sequence is Emi Sfard from Israel, ever since she remembers herself she has been painting, illustrating, sculpting and disassembling devices to see how they work. she was five year old when started attending the Youth Wing of the Israeli Museum of Art, which soon became her second home. There, she was exposed to a world of materials and to the history of art, and learned jewelry, sculpturing, painting, and more.
Later, she studied carpentry for a couple of years. In parallel, took private lessons in drawing and painting with the artist Marek Yanai.

Her first degree in Industrial Design is from Bezalel Academy of Art. she worked as an industrial designer for five years, whereas three of them were spent in Frog Design, Milan Italy. At the end of this period she realized that her passion was still, as it has always been, illustration, painting and sculpting.

Today, she is living in Tel-Aviv and dedicate herself to illustration and painting.

The photo i've included in this post is one of photos made for a 3D Passover Hagada, The illustration work was done by sculpting scenes that were then photographed using special equipment and method to create a 3D image.

http://www.emisfard.com/

Polymeri Online 24.7.09 - Suzanne Del Rizzo

Suzanne Del Rizzo is a stay at home mom with four small children, from Oakville Ontario.
she has a honours science degree from Queen's University but always had a passion for art. she has worked with polymer clay since the early'90's during and after university, but only recently began exploring plasticine as a medium after reading a few books my children brought home from the library illustrated by Barbara Ried. she was totally inspired by her fantastic plasticine illustrations, and liked the properties of plasticine as it stays pliable and doesn't require baking, in the past she used to work with polymer clay to make jewelry, but decided to focus on plasticine at the moment.
Suzanne loves doing cottage/home portraits and depicting children at play, and she takes pride in adding very specific details to her work, to make it something unique and special.

we can be inspired by this beautiful work!

visit her flickr site @ www.flickr.com/photos/sdelrizzo/
email: sdelrizzo@yahoo.ca

Polymeri Online 25.6.09

Clay illustration - Tammy Durham sculptures wonderful trees and birds, to her they represent freedom and she tries to capture that moment.
http://www.tammydurham.com/

Susan Averello from Fantazy Clay is sharing her pixie tutorial with us, this cute figure is just asking me to try!
http://saverello.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-make-pixie.html

Claire Maunsell is a professional glass blower for almost 20 years, since the family move around a lot, she have been working with a medium that is much more portable for her -polymer clay has many of the characteristics of hot glass - malleable, brilliant colours, ability to build millifiori canes and more!
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=65426

Look at this cute Dog cane by Israeli artist Ben-David !
http://www.tapuz.co.il/blog/ViewEntry.asp?EntryId=1499471
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26896606

Dumauvobleu from france, is a self taught polymer clay artist since 2007, jewelry designer
and painter. Her unique pendants are made from canes, blends, sheets, textures, stripes and interesting designs.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dumauvobleu/
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5518984

Polymeri Online 11.6.09

Soooooo, after having a little rest (not really) from Polymer Play Days (and completing
all my duties as a neglecting mother :) (joking of course), here is another thursday coming with some goodies from my polymer clay links bag -

Beadingdaily is a great site, don't remember how i became subscribed on it (probably did it and forgot about it) but i found some very good links in that site, here are some of
the polymer clay and other links i found interesting -
6 expert tips for creating marbled polymer clay beads
http://www.beadingdaily.com/blogs/daily/archive/2009/05/11/6-expert-tips-for-creating-marbled-polymer-clay-beads.aspx

and another article about polymer clay beads
http://www.beadingdaily.com/blogs/daily/archive/2009/04/08/make-beautiful-polymer-clay-beads.aspx

a general article very useful - making your own jump rings -

http://www.beadingdaily.com/blogs/daily/archive/2009/05/06/how-to-make-your-own-jump-rings.aspx

more links - Israeli art this time!
Irit Shainzinger - is an israeli making Clay illustration, "katanchik" in hebrew means small!
http://katanchik.carbonmade.com/

Cielo Design / Miriam is another Israeli making AMAZING work with seed beads and polymer clay - i just admire people with such a talent and patience, she says that she is a bead artist exploring fun and exciting new ways to make jewelry and wearable art.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cielodesign/

have a great weekend!

Polymeri Online 5.2.09

Jessica Fortner is an illustrator from Toronto, Canada. She creates her illustrations by fabricating environments and characters out of polymer clay (Super Sculpey) and other materials that she finds. After staging them they are photographed.

http://www.jessicafortner.com/

One of my polymer clay friends in Israel - Daniella made a beautiful piece for a contest, the subject was "Israel celebrating 60 years", she made a dove bird with seed beads and polymer clay beads, the dove represents hope and inspired by our Israeli solider Gilad Schalit, who is being held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas for 956 days now. We are waiting for him to come home.

Daniella won 2nd place.

♫HeidYMetaL♥ / Encarni from Madrid is working with Fimo and felt in her spare time and could not say which of the two things she likes most!
http://www.gizpins.es/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/heidymetal/

entrelasnubesdetupelo personalities sculpturing has lot's of characters! just looking at their faces you start thinking what they are thinking...from Cadiz, Spain.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/entrelasnubesdetupelo/

Hairspray for transfers? sound interesting! check this tutorial, although not meant for polymer clay - this could be an option! glad to hear if you had good/not good results!http://www.rubberstampingfun.com/rna.html

Polymeri Online 29.7.08

Fimo Maniguette / Maniguette is working with clay since september 2005, take a look at her Manga cane before reduction -

http://www.flickr.com/photos/14459304@N06/2713424754/
blogs : maniguette.canalblog.com , englishmaniguett.canalblog.com

debashri_m / Debashri Sengupta Muralidharan is making Flowers made from DECO clay for the last 2.5 years. DECO Clay is a special kind of Soft Clay, formulated by Kazuko Miyai of Japan.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/debashri/sets/72157605696359559/

Check this http://claygeek.wordpress.com/ blog - interesting posts! i even found myself there :)

PolymerPaws
Paula Pindroh is an illustrator living near the ocean in Charleston, SC. She enjoys dabbling in felting, origami, & oil painting but polymer clay is her love! http://www.polymerpaula.blogspot.com/
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5545786

Polymeri Online 12.6.08

Beautiful Clay Illustration by Irma Gruenholz Irma is an llustrator, her creations are used in books, magazines, and more, she also prepare 3D models in polymer clay for customer presentations (see photo on right)
http://www.deplastilina.com/

Another clay annimator is John Lemmon
John makes traditional animation producing clay animation, 2D animation and stop motion animation for TV commercials and videos. He excels in character design and character animation. His clients include Disney, Pacific Bell, Cartoon Network.
http://www.jlf.com/clay_anm.html

MARION´S CREATIES
Marion from the Netherlands makes cuties - take a look
http://fimoclub-marion.tk/

SOS Designs - Sharon Sahl
polymer clay ornaments and sitting figures, Santas, Snowmen, Christmas Kids, Angels, and more.don't miss the "about us" Gingerbread boy cane and see the components of the cane from this end.
http://www.sosornaments.com/aboutornaments.htm

Cleo Mussi Mosaics
http://www.mussimosaics.co.uk/

I Met Robert Dancik at Synergy, such a nice person, along with giving some lectures in classes he introduced us to the Faux Bone™, a wonderful new material that is user friendly and inexpensive. These qualities make it the perfect material for use by jewelers, sculptors, book and mixed media artists.
http://www.robertdancik.com/
http://www.fauxbone.com/

Polymeri Online 8.5.08

I'm sure you've seen Cynthia Tinnaple link on the Iterative Algorithmic Polymer Clay

well, try that with cookies - real cookies? http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/fractalcookies

For all you "i'm afraid i don't know how to shoot good photos" (i'm in too by the way) here's a 1 minute light tent with only a few facial tissues -

http://www.creativepro.com/article/digital-photography-how-to-building-a-light-tent

Abstracts fimo rings, by Dominika Naborowska / Dominika, she is from Poland, she likes contemporary jewelry most, including sculptural pieces from found objects and different unexperienced materials.

Using seedbeeds in designs is something i started too, it's such fun and it upgrades any piece.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/naborowska/sets/72157603358879711/

http://www.naborowska.pl/

Clay Illustration by Paul Moldovanos - The Clayman's Funhouse, The Clayman's 3D Cartoon artist is making Illustration, Character Design, CG and Stop Motion Clay Foam Puppet Animation and more! He's from Vancouver, BC, Canada

http://www.theclayman.com/3d_illustration1.htm

If you're looking for fast & easy children/adults figures to sculpture, here's a page you can take ideas from

http://photo.163.com/photos/glp1974/41930354/

and here are some more -

http://myosotis.canalblog.com/albums/pate_polymere/

as_art_up / _andrea from Germany makes great drawings and some fimo too! her sketches makes me want to make a millefiori cane :)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/as_art_up/sets/72157594289376337/
http://www.as-art-up.blogspot.com/

Polymeri Online 26.10.07

Jeanne Rhea had a great idea, make a rubber stamp out of drawing, little snakes of clay and liquied clay - check it out -
http://artfortheheart.blogspot.com/2007/10/rubberstamps-polymer-clay.html

Hermann Mejia is a Venezuelan illustrator, living in New York City, whose caricature-driven work frequently appears in Magazines, Stamps, Newspapers etc. i didn't find any word about his materials but i guess this could be some kind of clay.
http://www.hermannmejia.com/

Stonehouse Studio feature fancy jewelry from polymer clay along with made from natural, unfaceted gemstones and sterling silver.
http://www.stonehouse-studio.com/thegallery.php?imgdir=Polymer%20Clay&artist=20
http://www.stonehousestudio.blogspot.com/

Begginers project by Valerie Wallace - Pen covering with silver leaf - nice tutorial:
http://people.delphiforums.com/ananda37/pentutorial.html

Lindly Haunani tips about keeping knives sharp worth a million -
* don’t cut directly onto a glass or marble work-surface, use a slip sheet of bond paper, index card or deli-wrap instead
* when trimming clay against metal = bead mandrels or metal rulers use a utility knife instead
* store your blade when not in use in a plastic box sleeve or a polymer clay blade case
* try to avoid dropping it onto hard surfaces, as a burr at the end of the blade makes for “dull” cutting
* the acidity in some people’s natural skin oils can cause the blade to tarnish and drag... read more in this link:
http://lindly.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/keep-em-sharp/#more-99
http://lindly.wordpress.com/

Marina Bychkova from http://www.enchanteddoll.com/ makes (according to her) distant, far-away sadness dolls that recall childhood fairy-tales, and a dark, brooding sexuality. These are definitely not kid's toys, but stunning works of art.
read more in her interview -
http://www.pixelsurgeon.com/interviews/interview.php?id=233

Linda S. Wingerter grew up in a family of artists: her great grandfather painted church murals in Russia, her grandfather was a puppeteer, her grandmother was a miniaturist, her father was a graphic artist, and her mother is a book designer. She became a published artist at 13 when Cricket Magazine printed her drawing of a paper dragon in their letter pages.
Linda enjoys renovating her 90 year old house, making dolls, figure skating, and playing the fiddle and musical saw. She uses painted sculpy for the dolls head, the rest is: lace, muslin, ribbon, metal moulding, wire, DMC thread, dowels, and costume jewelry.
http://lswstudio.homestead.com/main.html

Polymeri Online 16.8.07

I was googling the other day and found some sites that were new to me - here are some:

Bronwen Fullington @ Coat of Many Colors design spirit dolls are the result of the artist longstanding fascination with myth and story, and the desire to celebrate the human spirit,The doll made of soft bodies of silk or velvet filled and weighted with poly. The faces and hands are sculpted of polymer clay and painted. The figures are decorated with fine fabrics and fashioned or found objects.
http://signofthedoveco-op.com/member_pages/b_fullington.html

New Tinkle Art Room Website is The Polymer Clay and Creative Arts place, they hold Clay and Art classes and retail services and located in Singapore.

http://www.tinkleartroom.com/
http://www.tinkleartroom.com/Gallery.html

Don't miss the lovely photo of the butterfly cane -http://tinkleartroom.blogspot.com/2007/07/completed-cane.html

Sandra Bruce is an illustrator but is also designing and making contemporary quilts, wearable art, polymer clay art, beading and many others! For a glimpse of very fun jewelry, polymer clay creations, wearable art and quilts, click on fun page

http://www.sandrabruce.com/home2.html
http://www.sandrabruce.com/funjwl3.html

http://www.sandrabruce.com/funpage.html

tatsuko Montreal - makes the great sushi jewelry, and they have no calories too :)
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6745&section_id=5007687

Valerie Moore started beading when she was 6, and have been working with polymer clay for a little longer than that.she says she is almost completely self-taught in both beading and polymer clay.

http://www.valeriebeads.com/http://valeriebeads.blogspot.com/

you can find 3 tutorials in her site too:
http://www.valeriebeads.com/claytutorial.html

Polymer clay in new Zealand! Galleries and projects:

http://www.polymerclay.co.nz/index.html

Found on Marjorie Zambrano blog - Little people standing near stairs - so sweet! even though one of her tags says it's not polymer clay, it can be a very original idea! http://mezg2004.blogspot.com/2007/07/little-people_16.html


Beautiful Iguana Sculpturing from polymer clay by MJ Crafts Design Studio

http://www.mjcrafts-designstudio.com/images/IguanaPolymerClayPin.jpg

Polymeri Online 15.4.07

Anne-Marie Hendry from Toronto, Ontario a former cartographer, technical illustrator, is now the creator of 3d art illustration: photos, tables decor, children art and more!
Thank you http://polymerclaynotes.com for this link :)

http://www.yarecruising.com/faith_gallery.htm

Helen Jacob - justbarrettes makes lovely polymer clay decorated Barrettes (and as a barrette lover i just love her designs!)

http://www.justbarrettes.com/

In le blog de mamezelle i found a unique japanese design millefiori cane
http://mamezellecat.canalblog.com/archives/2006/10/03/2821564.html

ETSY Polymer Clay Artist Guild site is full of great photos of the wonderful PC artists of Etsy - take a look!

http://etsypca.blogspot.com/

And last is Sharon Macleod and her wonderful designs - such a clean style - looks great.

http://www.sharonmacleod.com/index.html

Polymeri Online 1.3.07

Barbara Reid does wonders with clay illustration. Her style, her perfectness - magic!

born in 1957 in Toronto, Ontario.
After winning a creative writing contest in grade six, she decided to become a writer when she grew up. But by the end of high school it was clear that although she enjoyed writing, she liked reading a lot more, and drawing best of all. At the Ontario College of Art and Design her focus was illustration, and it was for a class assignment that she first experimented with plasticine to make a dimensional picture. The project was a surprise success, and when she entered another plasticine picture in a calendar contest to her surprise she won the contest.

http://www.barbarareid.ca/portfolio01.htm

And another site, too bad the photos are not that clear but you can try one of those plastilina figures on wire:

http://www.colaco.info/TutorialCaracolInicio.htm

Polymeri Online 1.11.06

Irma Gruenholz do wonderful Clay Illustration, sweet charachters, she works with advertising agencies, magazines and many others which use her work.

http://www.deplastilina.com/

Polymeri Online 26.10.06

Another clay illustration site is Holli Conger site

She is drawing since she was a child, has an art degree and work with art directors, designers, copywriters and other creative types to collaborate on projects.

http://www.holliconger.com/

her Blog -

http://www.agirlwhocreates.com/

Polymeri Online 18.10.06

It's florishing in the Clay Illustration business, the cooperation between the PC and animation is wonderful!

One of the great artists doing Clay Illustration is Amy Vangsgard (Polymeri 19.3.06)

and here is another artist giving us the pleasure again -

Sylvie Perrin does it in a humoristic way and her colorfull images are so sweet.

http://www.marie-et-nous.fr/marie_et_nous/sylvie_perrin_page.html